New Hard Disk Problems

[rosant3d]

Hello all,

i have a Suse10.1 installed on a primary HD of my computer, and i have to install more 2 HDs with NTFS Files on it.. I did all the partitioner stuff and now i can see all the hds and its contents, But i cant make any change on its files.. I did not mark Read Only on the Fstab menu, and when i try to change some folder or file permissions on Krusader or Konqueror i get a : Could not change permissions. error message. All the folders are " Can view content "

This is my fstab file :

/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda3 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /FileServer/hd1 ntfs users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /FileServer/hd2a ntfs users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /FileServer/hd2b ntfs user,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0

So anyone knows what is wrong ? I need to be able to change files from those HDs

THanks !

[devils casper]

set value of umask=0 only.

/dev/hdd1 /FileServer/hd1 ntfs users,gid=users,umask=0 0 0

casper

[rosant3d]

Thank you Devils_Casper,
i made the change, and my permissions became set to Read and Write, but still, whem i try to delete a file or create a Directory i get a Access Denied message.

I did some research on this last hour about this subject and i found a message on another forum where the guy says that Linux has a limited support for NTFS and in same cases it'ś not able to change files or create new ones.. And i found on another place a paid solution...

the NTFS driver for linux is here :
www.ntfs-linux.com

and the page the guy explains about linux ntfs limitations is here:
http://www.garayed.com/linux/210747-...tition-rw.html

I will try to solve my problem with a backup of my files and formating the XP HD to Suse FS, we are moving from a windows box to linux so i dont need it to be NTFS anymore...

Thank's Dude

[devils casper]

you are Welcome rosant3d ! all Linux distros, including SuSe, doesn't support NTFS write access out of box. with ntfs-3g package, you can write in NTFS too.
Linux support FAT32 read and write access. you can shrink NTFS partition and create new FAT32 partition for data sharing between Linux and Windows.






casper

[rosant3d]

Cool, i didnt knew this NTFS-3g, looks like it´s very nice..

See, we´ve been using windows here all the time, on workstation and servers, but our windows file server can´t take the amount of files and requests our network does, so we tryed Linux on a "Test Server" for a week, and it worked perfectly, so this weekend we are changing all our XP Servers to Linux. At this moment we are formating some HD to ReiserFS and moving the data from Ntfs to the New ones.. We thought its the best way to do it..

I looked for some information about this NTFS-3g, and i discovered that it does not work with files bigger than 4Gigs. And we have lots os files bigger than that... But i think it´s a very important information..

Thanks again, i apreciate your help.

Bests Reggards...

[oldcpu]

I looked for some information about this NTFS-3g, and i discovered that it does not work with files bigger than 4Gigs. And we have lots os files bigger than that... But i think it´s a very important information..

Thats news to me. Please, could you provide me your reference on this. I believe it to be much larger than that.

[rosant3d]

Hello OldCpu,

this is the first reference i found :

http://www.guiadohardware.net/comunidade/ntfs3g/318585/

this site is written in Portuguese (Brazil) so you will need a translator, if you are not familiar with the language, at that link one guy save a 4.4gb file through windows, and couldn´t read that on Linux, he recievied this error :
"erro no part.met"

I found another site (portuguese) that a guy made the 4gb tests and it´s blow his system, he did another test with a 1000(i dont remember de exact number) tree directory and it did not work again... I will make some research to find content in english so you could understand..

[rosant3d]

http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=22905

This guys are talking about some NTFS-3g Problems... but they don´t mention 4gigs limitation...

[oldcpu]

I found another site (portuguese) that a guy made the 4gb tests and it´s blow his system, he did another test with a 1000(i dont remember de exact number) tree directory and it did not work again... I will make some research to find content in english so you could understand..

I would be curious to read any english reviews. This is the first I've read of anyone finding a file integrity problem with ntfs-3g. ....

Out of curiousity, was it with a 32-bit, or a custom compiled 64-bit version of the driver? (I read the Babel Fish translation of the Portuguese, and it definitely wasn't clear to me). Thus far only 32-bit is noted to be reliable by the developer, ... although I have read of users compiling and creating 64-bit versions.

Also, one can post to this forum here, if one wishes to correspond with the ntfs-3g developer:
http://forum.ntfs-3g.org/index.php

[rosant3d]

They does not say anything about 32 or 64, but i believe its a 32bit version, here in Brazil we did not make the move to the 64 Bits Software, even microsoft dont sell XP64 around here..

This other link,

http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/artigos...=5252&pagina=3

, witch is on the first one i posted is about the other tests the guy made..